Fucking Åmål (1998)
(Show Me Love)
Country: SV/DK
Technical: col 89m
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson
Synopsis:
Teenagers in a nowhere Swedish town measure personal success by American-style affluence and sexual satisfaction and find their own lives wanting. One of them, a vegetarian and lesbian, nurtures a hopeless love for a classmate reckoned to be an 'easy lay'.
Review:
Uncompromisingly realist tread through adolescent angst, where the characters are unsympathetically selfish and cruel and the camera does nothing to make them or their surroundings more appealing. But then that would be the only reason for doing all this again, wouldn't it? The ending is a surprise one in making transgressive love's course run smooth, just as Gregory's Girl was in making his infatuation not so. One is left wondering here, however, whether the flighty Elin will remain a convinced partner in this lesbian relationship.
(Show Me Love)
Country: SV/DK
Technical: col 89m
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson
Synopsis:
Teenagers in a nowhere Swedish town measure personal success by American-style affluence and sexual satisfaction and find their own lives wanting. One of them, a vegetarian and lesbian, nurtures a hopeless love for a classmate reckoned to be an 'easy lay'.
Review:
Uncompromisingly realist tread through adolescent angst, where the characters are unsympathetically selfish and cruel and the camera does nothing to make them or their surroundings more appealing. But then that would be the only reason for doing all this again, wouldn't it? The ending is a surprise one in making transgressive love's course run smooth, just as Gregory's Girl was in making his infatuation not so. One is left wondering here, however, whether the flighty Elin will remain a convinced partner in this lesbian relationship.
(Show Me Love)
Country: SV/DK
Technical: col 89m
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecca Liljeberg, Erica Carlson
Synopsis:
Teenagers in a nowhere Swedish town measure personal success by American-style affluence and sexual satisfaction and find their own lives wanting. One of them, a vegetarian and lesbian, nurtures a hopeless love for a classmate reckoned to be an 'easy lay'.
Review:
Uncompromisingly realist tread through adolescent angst, where the characters are unsympathetically selfish and cruel and the camera does nothing to make them or their surroundings more appealing. But then that would be the only reason for doing all this again, wouldn't it? The ending is a surprise one in making transgressive love's course run smooth, just as Gregory's Girl was in making his infatuation not so. One is left wondering here, however, whether the flighty Elin will remain a convinced partner in this lesbian relationship.